(for context on what this series is, please see my Day 1 post here: https://rosaliarambles.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/redundancy-review-day-1-a-new-beginning/)
Good morning crumpets and teacakes, welcome to Day 13 of Rosalia Rambles Redundancy Review.
Main activity on the agenda today is a meeting with the Jobcentre to discuss the change in my circumstances, along with highlighting an error with how the administration company handled the payroll situation which has actively caused me to lose out on getting some money.
Thankfully though, I have always been the kind of person to maintain an extremely robust source of documentation in any situation. Back when I was dealing with problems with the electricity company, and getting ready for a complaint to either them or the ombudsman, I went to Citizen’s Advice to get some guidance.
The advisor said I had basically done their job for them, as they would be helping with gathering documentation and evidence. I walked in with a full month-long timeline of everything that had been happening, so all they really needed to do was give me the go ahead on what I was planning to do anyway.
In a way as well, this series continues my habit. Every day I am creating something new that chronicles my journey through this next phase of my life, so there will always be a record of what I got up to, how I felt, and how the story unfolded.
Beyond sorting out the situation with the Jobcentre and checking out job postings across the internet, it is mostly going to be having a day of connection with my partner. Over the weekend it was hard to do stuff together due to the heat getting to us and him experiencing PC issues, but with both of those things resolved now using his day off to spend time together seems like a good idea.
I am still on the lookout for writing work though. The rhythm is now in full swing and each day makes me better at what I do. Food, games, music, all of them are in my repertoire fully now and I would love the opportunity to do paid work to explore my opinions on things.
Today’s review will be a topic I considered briefly before ranting about Borderlands a few days back. One of my favourite Magic: the Gathering (MTG/Magic for short) cards, and how the deck around it took shape.
Now, I know Magic is a very complicated card game. Being over thirty years old at this point in time and having a foundation of spaghetti code, it can be hard for outsiders to understand things – this is why I am going to write a short glossary on the terms to be discussed to hopefully minimise communication issues:
- Colour – Magic has a system of five colours that determine what cards can do, similar to types in Pokemon. Colours do have a “philosophy” associated with them but that is a topic for another time
- Commander – A format in Magic where you build a deck around a legendary creature (Commander), where all the cards need to stay in that colour identity, and you can only have one copy of each card
- Spell – every nonland card in Magic is a spell, even creatures. The flavour of this is the players are dueling wizards, bringing forth powerful effectives each turn
- Stack – similar to in programming, abilities in Magic work on a stack, operating on a “first in, last out” principle meaning whatever card is placed on the stack first resolves last
Okay, preamble done, time to introduce the card.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary is a blue-green card initially released in the 2006 set “Dissension”, part of the original Ravnica block, with the version above being released in the 2019 “Ravnica Allegiance” Guild Kit decks, which is where I got my hands on it.
The ability triggers whenever a creature spell of the respective colour is cast. Green lets you grab a creature and put it on top of your deck, blue lets you reveal the top card of your deck – if it’s a creature, you can put it into your hand.
Hopefully the combo is pretty obvious here: play a green creature to get a card on top, and then follow up with a blue creature to get it into your hand.
However, there is a little something in Momir’s rules clarification that makes this card very interesting.
If you play a creature that is both blue and green simultaneously, both abilities trigger. Due to how the stack works in Magic, the player triggering those abilities can choose to order them on the stack however they want. This means whenever a blue-green creature is cast, the player can essentially search their deck for any creature and put it into their hand.
And if that creature is blue-green itself, then the process can continue ad nauseam… so obviously I built a deck around that entire concept.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6941266#paper
Behold! Simic Slaw, named for the horrendous concoction made up for a LoadingReadyRun Friday Nights episode. It is a deck solely made up of blue-green creatures, but I went beyond that. Even though cards of other types have no synergy with Momir, every card (minus artifacts) is blue-green as well.
Now, is this deck extremely fun? Yes. Is this deck very tiresome to run because of all the shuffling? Yes. Does this deck have a clear win condition? You bet your ass it… does not actually.
Simic Slaw is one of my several meme decks built around a silly theme to have fun rather than anything else. I have decks I can bring out for being competitive or being scary at a gaming table, but the joy of Commander is making weird creations of cards that would have never got their time to shine otherwise- a gallery of cards from a specific colour pair definitely fits that vibe.
Anyway, that was a page and a bit ramble around Magic, so I will end things off here.
Thank you for reading the Redundancy Review today. Hopefully the Monday blues do not hit you too hard and you are able to relax at some point today. You are appreciated by both me and the world, so hang in there.
Rosalia Rambles 
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